Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

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And while engineers often develop algorithms for specific uses, professors in Northwestern Engineering’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) have the distinct ...

“The algorithm can find patterns that a software engineer may [not have] noticed, and is able to reproduce them in a way that would be difficult or impossible to code.” ...

Google’s algorithm mistakenly dubbed an engineer into a notorious serial killer called The Sadist. Here’s how he knew about it.